Letter

By the President: J. M. Clayton to J. Prescott Hall, September 6, 1849

Mr. Clayton, Secretary of State, to Mr. Hall, district attorney.

[Confidential.—Telegram.]

J. Prescott Hall, Esq United States District Attorney, New York:

[653] Dear Sir: In answer to yours, just received, I have to say, *arrest any man belonging to the Cuba expedition, against whom you have what you deem to be sufficient or reasonable evidence.

J. M. CLAYTON.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.